W. Bowman Cutter is our first Plantagenet Angel Award Recipient The Plantagenet Angel Award was created to recognize the support of our most generous donors. We are very pleased to give this award to W. Bowman “Bo” Cutter of New York City, who has been a member since 2002. “…Henry VII, at best was a jerk and probably a very bad man.” About his interest in Richard III and the
New Additions to the Fiction Library The latest additions to the fiction library include two novels about Cecily Neville which take very different approaches in telling her story as well as the latest (and last?) installment in J.P. Reedman’s I, Richard Plantagenet series. If you are in the mood for a rousing adventure story, you may be interested in The King’s Son by Darren Harris. Cecily by Annie Garthwaite
Manga Mania Just when you think that the story of King Richard III, whether Shakespeare’s version or factually-based, has been depicted in every form of media, something new comes along. In recent years, Richard has made his way into the popular pages of manga. “What is manga?” the older among us may ask. A brief definition is, “Manga is an umbrella term for a wide variety of comic books and
The 2022 awardee of the annual Schallek Fellowship is Alexandra Atiya from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation topic is, “Economic and Spiritual Conflict in Medieval East Anglian Drama.” Read Alexandra’s full abstract here… The Richard III Society-American Branch, in collaboration with the Medieval Academy of America, offers a full-year fellowship and five graduate student awards in memory of William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek. The fellowship and awards
